EU-VALUES

The EU-VALUES Network brings together 21 outstanding higher education institutions from Europe and the world to enhance the debate on and improve knowledge of values and democracy in the EU’s foreign policy. Esade is a member of this network through the EsadeGeo Center for Global Economy and Global Governance. The coalition, coordinated by the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), comprises nearly 100 academic experts from six continents, who were selected based on their scholarly excellence and inclusiveness criteria such as gender equality and geographic diversity.

The EU-VALUES network has identified the need to strengthen the external legitimacy of the EU as a force for good in times of contestation. The general objectives of the network are generating and distributing novel knowledge on the nexus of EU foreign policy and the promotion of democracy and EU values and contributing to the primary objective of the Erasmus+ programme, namely supporting the educational, professional, and personal development of people in Europe and beyond through lifelong learning. 
 

The network will collect, discuss, evaluate, and disseminate research on key developments in various policy areas in four thematic work packages. Members will examine EU values and their impact on EU policies such as security, development, trade, climate, and sustainable development goals. The network will collect academic output following a triple-layered collection process based on the idea of a “network of networks”. The collected material will be discussed within the network using peer review, expert surveys, reflection papers, and two-day network conferences in Turkey, Morocco, Indonesia and Chile. The project’s work plan includes a website with a blog, a newsletter with cutting-edge research and didactic results, databases, interactive tools, webinars and video series. EU-Values will also contribute to transversal educational training with a MOOC and a textbook.

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